When Love Is Young
Cast & Crew
Hal Mohr
Virginia Bruce
Kent Taylor
Walter Brennan
Greta Meyer
Christian Rub
Film Details
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Synopsis
Wanda Werner, a quiet farm girl, attends her high school graduation dance in the company of her uncle Hugo, but hopes for at least one dance with the class president, Norman Crocker. To her delight, Norman does ask her to dance, but only because he has accepted a bet to do so. Just before the reading of the class prophecies, Wanda's classmates realize that they neglected to make a prophecy for her. Because she is so quiet, no one really knows her, and the resulting unflattering prediction sends her from the room crying. Determined to put her unhappy past behind her, Wanda moves to New York to study singing. She has no luck there either, until she meets press agent Andy Russell. He hires her to drive a flock of geese down a busy street as a publicity stunt for a play. In return, he gets her a job singing for a morning exercise program. When she is fired from the job, she angrily accuses Andy of lying to her. Seeing her angry for the first time, Andy convinces a producer that she is a great actress. After he remakes her image, he helps Wanda learn the Broadway singing style. As the star of Jack O'Lantern Girl , Wanda is a big success. Andy tells her how much he loves her, intending to ask her to marry him, but when she announces that she is making a visit home, he thinks she is going to see her "boyfriend," Norman, whose picture she keeps in her room. The entire town comes out to welcome Wanda home. At a party in her honor, Norman turns all his charm on her, greatly upsetting his loyal girl friend, Irene Henry. Discovering how shallow Norman is, Wanda realizes that she loves Andy. She hurries back to New York to tell Andy that she loves him, too.
Director
Hal Mohr
Cast
Virginia Bruce
Kent Taylor
Walter Brennan
Greta Meyer
Christian Rub
William Tannen
Jean Rogers
Sterling Holloway
Nydia Westman
David Oliver
Jack Smart
Laurie Douglas
Franklin Pangborn
Julius Molnar
Chico De Verdi
Barbara De Bozoky
Tim Henning
Ralph Brooks
Al Williams
Joseph Diskay
Matty Roubert
Arthur Housman
Jack Gardner
Eddie Anderson
James Quinn
Max Wagner
Edward Gargan
Gennaro Gurci
Flora Finch
Lloyd Whitlock
Lane Chandler
William Castle
Gilbert White
Hal Cooke
Ralph Gilliam
Gloria Fisher
Crew
Harold Adamson
Betty Arrighi
Jerome Ash
Bernard W. Burton
Adele Comandini
Joseph Fields
Fred Frank
John P. Fulton
Eve Greene
John Harkrider
Ben Holmes
Nick Long Jr.
Jimmy Mchugh
Jack Otterson
George Owen
Robert Presnell
Charles Previn
Charles R. Rogers
Nagene Searle
Johann Strauss
Homer Tasker
Gil Valle
Richard Wagner
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The film's pre-release title was Class Prophecy. Universal production files at USC, credit Dawn and DeGraw and Jack Pierce without specifying their contribution. Pierce usually worked as a makeup man in Universal films.
